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...half years, I’ve imposed myself on your editorial page with oft-inane, always obscure commentary about the ways technology has transformed and will transform our lives. I’ve spoken about privacy, about copyright, about free discourse and the democratic process, and about how to procrastinate during reading period…and it all ends here...
...open up eateries in the United States. Pasteur is the name of a well-known avenue in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. The Pho Pasteur, for example, in Carrolton, Texas has no connection to Le’s chain. Although Pho Pasteur is not a copyright protected name, Le has copyrighted his own name, Le’s, because he feels a personal connection to the restaurants he created under the previous title. “I made it become successful in this city. The name became famous because I did it. I built...
...better legal representation, would James Joyce’s Ulysses have ever been published? Intertextuality isn’t just a word that literature majors throw around at their swank cocktail parties—it’s a fundamental attribute of creative expression.Even in an age when copyright terms have been extended to absurd lengths in order to keep Mickey Mouse locked up and proprietary, there is a viable movement of people who question the balkanization of artistic expression. Lawrence Lessig and his “Free Culture” peers (including Cory Doctorow, interviewed in the Crimson earlier...
...than failure to deliver, but you can bet it’s very rare,” Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. According to legal experts, it is possible to plagiarize a work without infringing on its copyright. “If I use a sentence from another work and pass it off as my own without citing it or quoting it, that might not be copyright infringement, because I wouldn’t necessarily need permission to use it,” Lawrence Lessig, a prominent intellectual...
Viswanathan shares the copyright for Opal with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager, which develops book ideas, hires writers, then delivers a finished product to publishers. Packagers have been more common in nonfiction--cookbooks, joke books--but Alloy has turned itself into a giant of young-women's fiction. Headed by Leslie Morgenstein, 39, Alloy has put together hit series, including The Clique and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It's a "fiction factory," as a publishing insider calls it, but one with a well-respected sense of the mercurial girl culture; Alloy's parent company also owns the teen...